Documents / Official release
This FBI file serial collects 1947 Army Air Forces reports on flying disc sightings. It includes Air Defense Command interviews from September 1947 with Pan American pilot Alpheus Powell and navigator Walter White about orange objects seen near Boston on 4 August 1947. It also holds a Birmingham, Alabama report with a photograph, newspaper clippings and a sergeant's sworn statement, Newfoundland and Alaska sighting reports, notes on an instrument found in Illinois, and a Weather Bureau memo on a metallic disk.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
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Report Number Date *Hour Location 1 19 May 1215 Manitou Springs, Colorado 2 22 May Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 3 22 June 1130 Greenfield, Massachusetts 4 24 June Mt. Rainier, Washington 5 28 June 2120 Maxwell Field, Alabama 6 29 June 1330 Nera White Sands, New Mexico 7 1 July Bakersfield, California 8 4 July 2015 Emnett, Idaho 9 6 July 1345 Clay Center, Kansas 10 6 July - Fairfield-Suisun, California 11 7 July 1145 Koshkonong, Wisconsin 12 7 July 1430 East Troy, Wisconsin 13 8 July 1550 Mt. Baldy, California 14 9 July 2330 Grand Falls, Newfoundland 15 10 July 1600 Harmon Field, Newfoundland 16 12 July 1830 Elmendorf Field, Alaska 17 - 18 - *Local Standard Time
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 126 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.